Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	5 August (heats and semifinals); 6 August (final)
Competitors	32 from 21 nations
Winning time	2:06.80
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 5 and 6 August 2018.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:06.67	Tokyo	29 January 2017
European record	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:06.96	Budapest	28 July 2017
Championship record	Marco Koch	Germany	2:07.47	Berlin	21 August 2014

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
6 August	Final	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:06.80	CR, ER

The heats were started on 5 August at 10:32.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:07.70	Q
2	4	5	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	2:08.91	Q
3	3	5	Ilya Khomenko	Russia	2:09.63
4	4	3	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:10.18	Q
5	3	4	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:10.30	Q
6	2	4	James Wilby	Great Britain	2:10.81	Q
7	2	5	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:10.82	Q
8	3	2	Darragh Greene	Ireland	2:11.22	Q
9	3	3	Mikhail Dorinov	Russia	2:11.29
10	4	2	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:11.44	Q
11	2	0	Mykyta Koptyelov	Ukraine	2:11.50	Q
12	4	1	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	2:11.52	Q
13	3	1	Valentin Bayer	Austria	2:11.73	Q
14	2	2	Dávid Horváth	Hungary	2:11.85	Q
15	2	3	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:12.43	Q
16	2	1	Jacques Laeuffer	Switzerland	2:12.57	Q
17	2	7	Christopher Rothbauer	Austria	2:12.61	Q
18	3	7	Bartłomiej Roguski	Poland	2:12.69	Q
19	2	6	Max Pilger	Germany	2:12.84
20	4	6	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2:13.16
21	3	6	Yannick Käser	Switzerland	2:13.66
22	4	7	Ilya Shymanovich	Belarus	2:13.85
23	4	0	Martin Allikvee	Estonia	2:13.93
24	2	9	Ivan Strilets	Ukraine	2:13.94
25	4	8	Filip Chrápavý	Czech Republic	2:13.99
26	3	9	Tomáš Klobučník	Slovakia	2:14.04
27	3	0	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	2:14.20
28	2	8	Johannes Dietrich	Austria	2:14.30
29	3	8	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia	2:14.69
30	1	4	Tomas Veloso	Portugal	2:15.95
31	1	3	Lachezar Shumkov	Bulgaria	2:17.22
32	1	2	Jozef Beňo	Slovakia	2:18.33
	1	5	Berkay Öğretir	Turkey	Did not start
	4	9	Teemu Vuorela	Finland	Did not start

The semifinals were started on 5 August at 17:49.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:08.57	Q
2	4	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	2:08.63	Q
3	3	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:10.00	Q
4	2	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	2:10.12	Q
5	6	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:10.19
6	7	Dávid Horváth	Hungary	2:10.70
7	8	Bartłomiej Roguski	Poland	2:11.32
8	1	Jacques Laeuffer	Switzerland	2:12.44

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:07.95	Q
2	5	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:08.52	Q
3	3	James Wilby	Great Britain	2:09.59	Q
4	1	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:09.84	Q
5	2	Mykyta Koptyelov	Ukraine	2:10.41
6	6	Darragh Greene	Ireland	2:11.36
7	7	Valentin Bayer	Austria	2:12.33
8	8	Christopher Rothbauer	Austria	2:12.44

The final was started on 6 August at 18:08.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:06.80	CR, ER
	2	James Wilby	Great Britain	2:08.39
	5	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:08.54
4	3	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:08.55
5	6	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	2:08.77
6	8	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	2:09.71
7	1	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:09.87
8	7	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:10.25